Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What evidence there was favored another explanation: for the moment Japanese and U.S. policy toward the occupation happened to run side by side; the Japanese Government wanted the people to roll with the punches, MacArthur was not set for a haymaker. Each wanted to spar around, learn more about the...
The laughter of yeh chi ("wild chickens") rang through every thick-carpeted hotel corridor. The steaks were thick and plentiful. Real Scotch (not Australian) whiskey flowed. Hotel beds had spring mattresses and clean white sheets. By changing U.S. dollars to Chungking dollars to Nanking dollars to Japanese yen, the fabulously...
Chiang Kai-shek was not on hand when Mao deplaned at Chungking. But the welcoming delegation included the Generalissimo's eldest son, brisk, Moscow-trained Chiang Ching-kuo. Someone asked Mao: "What do you think of the plane?" Said he, with noticeable lack of fervor: "Very efficient." Ambassador Hurley...
In 1919 the exiles organized a Pro visional Government at Shanghai. For two decades they had factional troubles. In 1942 they united again, under the Presidency of earnest, greying Kim Koo, who had taken refuge in Chungking, and won financial support and de facto recognition from Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The...
The Worriers. In Chungking last week the Korean Provisional Government chafed anxiously, hoped hard for Chinese and U.S. air transport homeward. While waiting, Foreign Minister T. Josowang paid public tribute to Korean troops with the Red Army and with the Chinese Communists, who last month suddenly sponsored a Korean Independence...